"Scorer Ma, don't you have to visit every work area of our production team every day to check on everyone's work progress? I'd like to ask you to help me find something in the wild while you're doing your inspection this morning!"
"Looking for something? What are you looking for?"
"The food we lost last night."
"Shen Zhiqing, weren't those grains stolen? The thieves must have hidden them at home. Why are you asking me to help you look for them in the wild? How can I possibly find them?"
Hearing Shen Xiaobei's unreasonable request, Ma Deliang looked embarrassed.
"Ma Scorer, since I've asked for your help, I won't hide anything from you. I suspect our grain was stolen, not by outsiders, but by someone inside our educated youth camp."
"Ah? How could this happen?"
"I had some conflicts with one of them these past two days. I won't tell you who it was. So I suspect this person deliberately threw away our food to get back at me!"
"Throwing away your food to retaliate against you? Wouldn't that hurt her own side and the enemy? It wouldn't do her any good!"
"You said it yourself. The other party suffered 800 injuries, while I suffered 1,000. As long as they can injure me an extra 200, based on my understanding of this person, she can definitely do it."
"So, Horse Scorer, I'd like you to help me look around our production team this morning, especially the gutters and areas with dense weeds and trees. I'll also check some of our production team's toilets later to see if she threw it there."
"Shen Zhiqing, even if we find it, it doesn't prove that it was the person you think did it, right?"
"I can't prove it absolutely. But as long as I can find some physical evidence, I can find a way to make this person take some responsibility for the immoral thing she did!"
"Well, all right then! I'll help you look around in the morning!"
"Great! That's a good thing! If you find it, please keep it to yourself and tell me first."
"Don't worry about this, I understand!"
After explaining everything to Ma Deliang, Shen Xiaobei suppressed his nausea and immediately went to check out several toilet pits.
Three kinds of food were lost at once. Rice and flour are both loose small particles, which are easy to fall and scatter.
She didn't believe it and couldn't find any clues.
However, she didn't find any rice or flour particles floating in those toilet pits.
I had no choice but to go back to the educated youth point first.
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Ma Jiquan is a simple and honest middle-aged man. His family is heavily burdened. Although he is the production team leader, he, like other members without positions, has to rely on farm work to earn work points.
His wife is not in good health and needs to see a doctor and take medicine from time to time.
He has three children, one in middle school and two in elementary school. After he finishes his morning work, there is a pile of housework waiting for him to do.
So he sent his daughter to deliver half a pound of rice to the educated youth site.
He also asked his daughter to tell Fan Huifang that he would come over at noon to talk to them about the stolen food, and asked them to eat breakfast first.
When Fan Huifang took the half pound of rice from Ma Jiquan's daughter, her eyes instantly became wet.
She felt touched, but also heavy-hearted and anxious.
Ma Jiquan was just a production team leader. He was definitely not good at investigating theft, and it was not within his management scope.
Fan Huifang had no choice but to report the grain theft to him, just to find some comfort for herself.
The so-called emergency relief does not mean poverty relief.
It was already kind of Ma Jiquan to give them half a pound of rice. However, they still had to figure out how to get their food for the next ten days.
So Fan Huifang had to use this half pound of rice very carefully.
The cooking shifts at their educated youth center were rotated every three days, and this morning it was her and Ke Xiaoli's turn to make breakfast.
The staple food is still sweet potato porridge.
She took two small sweet potatoes, washed them and cut them into very small pieces so that there would appear to be more pieces.
Then, he grabbed a handful of rice with his hand, but felt it was too much, so he let some more fall through his fingers.
In the end, I probably only grabbed less than half a pound of rice, added two small sweet potatoes, put in a lot of water, and boiled half a pot of sweet potato porridge that was so thin that it made me want to have diarrhea.
When she and Ke Xiaoli brought the porridge and two generously sized vegetable dishes to the small dining table in the yard, no one was in a hurry to pick up their chopsticks.
Everyone sat in silence, waiting for someone to say something first.
"Everyone eat!"
Seeing everyone like this, Fan Huifang felt even more guilty. She forced out an ugly smile to break the solemn atmosphere.
"Everyone, eat, eat. No matter how big the matter is, we should always fill our stomachs first, right?"
Deng Yuliang then also acted like an older brother.
Following Fan Huifang's words, he smiled and invited everyone to eat. Then, he was the first to pick up the chopsticks and prepare to take a bite of the small plate of stir-fried beans closest to him.
"How can this bland soup fill my stomach?"
Before Deng Yuliang could pick up a piece of beans with his chopsticks, he was stunned by Kong Wanwan's realistic and heartbreaking words.
Then he slowly put the chopsticks back with some embarrassment.
"Shen Xiaobei, didn't you pat your chest and promise us yesterday when we had breakfast that you wouldn't let us have no food to eat? We are about to starve, so tell me, shouldn't you keep your word?"
"Of course I'll keep my word."
"Oh, you only know how to brag and fool everyone!"
"If you're talking so nicely, then if you have the guts, go get some food right now! There aren't even a few grains of rice in this porridge, not even enough to fill a gap between our teeth. Just ask, who can eat their fill? Who will have the energy to go to work later?"
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